Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.